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Heron Southerns at Chipstead SC - Saturday 4 June 2006 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jonathan Hunt   
Saturday, 01 July 2006 12:14
The Heron Association Southern Championships were held on a glorious sunny day, Saturday 4 June, at Chipstead Sailing Club. A total of 13 boats participated in the event, of which 11 were sailed by Association members. 20 Richmond Village Twelve boats took to the water for the first race which, with light winds from the north west began with a committee boat start at the east end of the lake. Martin Treadway led from the start, with Peter Moulton vying for second place with Mike Pickett and then Nigel Darby fourth. Jon Hunt was in fifth with the rest of the fleet spread out behind, having many private battles and many changes of place. At the finish, after 3 laps, Martin Treadway came in 1st well ahead of Peter Moulton, 2nd, Mike Pickett, 3rd, and Nigel Darby, 4th.


After lunch, the wind was again light from the north west so there was no change of course and another committee boat start. At the first windward mark, the same five boats were having a tussle to be first round; Martin Treadway achieving this. However, on the run down the lake there was nothing between these leading boats. On the second lap Martin Treadway got away just ahead of Peter Moulton, with the others now quite widely strung out in the order: Nigel Darby, Mike Pickett and then Jon Hunt. On the third beat up the lake the wind dropped, Martin sat in a hole and Nigel slipped past into 1st place, with Mike Pickett 2nd, Martin 3rd and Peter Moulton 4th. This meant that Martin Treadway and Mike Pickett now had 4 points each so the third and last race would be the decider.


This last race started from opposite the race hut which, as those who have visited Chipstead will know, is set high above the lake and near the main club building. It started with a short beat to the windward mark, at the north end of the lake. Martin Treadway passed this first, just ahead of Jon Hunt. There was then a long run down the lake, with five boats in a bunch. All appeared to round the leeward mark together in very dirty wind but Martin and Jon managed to pull away into clear wind for the beat back up the lake. However the wind then dropped again and all the boats slowed down. As time was short the OOD decided to shorten the race and Mike Pickett slipped through the fleet, apparently with his own wind, to finish in front, very near the pontoons, followed by Nigel Darby 2nd, Jon Hunt 3rd, Peter Moulton 4th, and Martin Treadway 5th.


The table of results opposite shows all the boats which participated in the event but the main placings only relate to those sailed by Association members. However the table does show the places which the other two boats would have been given in the individual races.




Boat

Helm

Crew

Club

Race

1

Race

2

Race 3

Points

Final

Position

9812

M.Pickett

C.Pickett

Up River

3

2

1

3

1

10061

N.Darby

J.Polston

Eyott

4

1

2

3

2

9866

M.Treadway

D.Palmer

Chipstead

1

3

5

4

3

10019

P.Moulton

E.Morse

Chipstead

2

4

4

6

4

7

J.Hunt

V.Hunt

Chipstead

5

5

3

8

5

9338

M.Rowntree

A.Rowntree

Chipstead

7

7

6

13

6

10044

P.Lund

M.Lund

Nantwich

9

6

7

13

7

8432

R.Goldsmith

K.Goldsmith

Chipstead

6

8

DNS

14

8

1529

A.Tormey

K.Brett

Chipstead

8

9

DNS

17

9

9045

P.Marshall

P.Marshall

Chipstead

10

10

DNS

20

10

2202

J.Darby

J.Senior

Crawley

11

11

DNS

22

11

8651

S.Poston

C.Posford

Chipstead

(7)

(13)

DNS


DNQ

8428

A Dale

A Rowntree

Eyott / CSC

DNS

(6)

(1)


DNQ



Trophies were awarded as follows:


Overall winner

Bell trophy

Mike Pickett

Up River YC

Winner – 1st race

Alfred Bossi

Martin Treadway

Chipstead SC

Winner – 2nd race

Marlow Salver

Nigel Darby

Eyott SC

Winner – 3rd race

Croydon Anchor

Mike Pickett

Up River SC

1st Lady Helm

Ladies’ Trophy

Alison Tormey

Chipstead SC

1st Chipstead boat

Elise Stern Salver

Martin Treadway

Chipstead SC


Last Updated on Saturday, 01 July 2006 12:39
 

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